You’ll remember that I wrote about the online game ‘Wordle’ about five days ago.
It’s an online word guessing game, which involves guessing a five-letter word in six attempts.
It was invented by British designer John Wardle—the name ‘Wordle’ being a play on his own name.
You start with five blank squares and have to invent your own five-letter word to get you started.
Using colour codes the game then tells you which letters are in the target word, but that you have in the wrong place; which are right letters in the right place; and which letters don’t belong at all.
You have a total six lines, six guesses, to work your way to the correct five-letter word for the day.
‘Wordle’ players say the best starter word is ‘adieu’—because it gives you four of the five vowels.
John Wardle himself says that his starter word on ‘Wordle’ used to be ‘stare.’
Then I asked readers to suggest the starter word they used (and to tell us their best score!)
Let me share just a few of their replies with you.
Gary's advice—'I start with RAISE and then GOUTY which gives me the vowels and Y. Works pretty well, but I often resort to a scrabble word finder if needed.’
Peter says: ‘My starter word is “aside”—three vowels and S and D both of which are common final letters in five letter words. I have solved Wordle on line two about four times. The words that trip me up most are DG words—such as lodge and wedge.’
Anne says: ‘I always use “piano” as my starting word and my best score is two guesses.’
Barbara writes: ‘I play Wordle Unlimited every day and set myself a time limit as it’s very addictive! The advantage of this site is that it is unlimited in the number of games, and also you can give up on the difficult ones and receive the answer immediately, instead of waiting for the next day’s results. You should give it a go! My best score was one try, and I have had several scores of two, but these were down to pure luck with no skill involved.’
I had never heard of Wordle Unlimited so that’s a good tip from Barbara. It’s found on a website called Wordly—and here’s the link: Wordle Game - Play Unlimited
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